Debra Dean

The Madonnas of Leningrad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this sublime debut novel, set amid the horrors of the siege of Leningrad in World War II, a gifted writer explores the power of memory to save . . . and betray.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780062163035
• ISBN-10: 0062163035
• Artikelnr.: 69820491

Autorenporträt

Debra Dean worked as an actor in New York theater for nearly a decade before opting for the life of a writer and teacher. She and her husband now live in Miami, where she teaches at the University at Miami. She is at work on her second novel.

Rezensionen

'An unforgettable story of love, survival and the power of imagination in the most tragic circumstances. Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share.' Isabel Allende

'A luminescent debut... "The Madonnas of Leningrad" recalls Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and deserves similar success. This is a novel that dares to be beautiful and fully succeeds.' Daily Mail

'The real achievement of Dean's novel lies beyond descriptions of Alzheimer's, sensitive and elegantly done though they are...[Dean] has brought the siege of Leningrad to dramatic, desperate life...this breathtaking novel shows that epiphanies can take place anywhere.' Guardian

'A taut and boldly unsentimental tale, Dean's glistening debut plumbs the twin mysteries of memory and the imagination.' Observer

'An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime...Dean's exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment.' Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling author of 'Aloft'